The Health Insurance Advocate Newsletter
Fourth Edition 2009
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Pelosi’s New Tax Bill and the Middle Class
How do you begin to explain a 1,990 page Bill entitled “The Affordable Health Care Act for America” dubbed by the Wall Street Journal as possibly the worse piece of legislation since the Smoot Hawley Tariff? Let’s start by understanding the central motive behind Speaker Pelosi’s bill: to ram through Congress what is essentially an income distribution scheme called Universal Health Care.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the House Bill to cost $1.055 TRILLION over one decade. ...
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The End of Private Health Insurance As We Know It Is Now In Sight
The Affordable Health Care Act for America, also known as The Pelosi House Health Care Bill, will most certainly destroy the private health insurance industry in this country; which is its central objective; here’s how:
Let’s start with the government run health care exchanges which will be established by this bill for people making $96,000 a year who will be able to purchase heavily subsidized health insurance by 2016. A family of four making $42,000 per year will have 93% of their health
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Hospital and Doctors Fate Under National Health Care
What will happen when the Affordable Health Care Act of America becomes law? The Bill will expand government control of health care services to the point that all medicine practiced in the U.S. will be governed by politics. Let me explain; Medicare actuaries note that 46% of the U.S. health care dollar is current controlled by Medicare. This will rise to over 60% in the next 5 years, as the government health care option takes hold and expands.
It is important to remember, that Medicare re
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After Tuesday’s elections it is fair to assume that those on the left, specifically blue dog or center democrats have much to be worried about. Women made up one of the largest voting blocks that swept Mr. Obama and the democrats into office. A recent Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) survey showed the following: 74% of women rate their own health care as good or excellent and 77% think their care is good or better than what others receive. What is particularly interesting in this poll
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